Conveying apparatus.



PATENTED MAY 21, 1907.

' I. M- HENRIGKS.

' CONVEYING APPARATUS.

' APPLICATION FILED DEC. 20, 190 6 INVI-/ENIT OR. Isaac M.Henricks.

) WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY;

the purpose of conveying a rural mail box be- ISAAC M. HENRICKS, oF GREENFIELD, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO HORACE e. BECKNER, or GREENFIELD, INDIANA.

CONVEYING APPARATUS.

Application filed December 20, 1906. Serial No. 348,758i

Patented May 21, 1907.

T0 (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IsAAo M. HENRIoKs, of Greenfield, county of Hancock and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Conveying Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved means for transmitting rural mail boxes and other things.

The invention was devised especially for The carriage consists of two side bars 15 with little truck wheels 16 mounted in the bearing 17 on the side of said track bars that are adapted to run upon the track wires 13. The side bars of the carrier are connected by cross-rods 18 which are threaded to make the width of the carrier adjustable. Brackets 19 are secured on the inner surfaces of the side bars 15 for supporting a mail box 20. When the mail box is put in place on the brackets 19 the side bars are clamped against it by the nuts 21.

A pair of guide-rods 22 extend down from each side of the bars 15 of the carrier astride the carrier wire 13 to prevent the carrier running off the track wire. Eyes 24 are clamped on the cross-rods 18 for'securing the ends of the supporting cable 25. Each end of this cable is fastened to an eye 24 and passes over a pulley 26 on a post 27 at the roadway end of the apparatus and back under the carrier and over the drum 28 on the shaft 29 mounted on the upper end of the posts 30 at the residence end of the apparatus. The shaft 29 is actuated by the crank 31 or any other suitable means.

From the foregoing description it is observed that the posts for supporting the track wires are all below the track wires and below the carrier so there is nothing calculated to obstruct the carrier. Likewise the cable for moving the carrier is extended from posts higher than the track supporting posts at each end so that there is nothing to obstruct or interfere with the operation of said cable. In a long apparatus the slack portions of the cable rest upon the crossarms 11 and are prevented from escape there from by the track supports 12.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Apparatus of the kind described including a carrier, a pair of parallel track wires upon which the carrier moves, a row of posts, cross-arms mounted upon said posts, upwardly extending track wire -holding means on the ends of said cross-arms, a cable for moving the carrier, means higher than the track wires for supporting said cable between the track wires so that the slack thereof will be supported by said cross-arms, and means at one end of the apparatus for actuating said cable. I

2. Apparatus of the kind described including a carrier adjustable in width, means tween the farmers residence and the highway by means operable at the residence end of the apparatus.

The chief feature consists in making a carrier movable upon a pair of track wires that are mounted upon the top of posts so that the posts will not interfere with the carriage and may pass over hills and through valleys without difficulty. To that end also the cable or means for moving the carriage is mounted above the track wires.

Another feature of the invention consists in the construction of the carrier whereby it is adapted to mail boxes varying in size and any box of any ordinary size may be clamped upon the carrier.

These and other features of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims:

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus as a whole. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, showing the end of the apparatus at the residence. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, showing the carrier and mail box. Fig. 4 is a detail of one part of the carrier. Fig. 5 is a transverse section through a portion of the carrier frame shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the carrier. Fig. 7 is a cross-section of one of the track wires and a side elevation of one end of the means for supporting the same. Fig. 8 is a section on the line 88 of Fig. 6.

A line of posts 10 is established between the residence and the highway over hill and through valleys asmay be required, and each post has on it a cross arm 11 with a wire support 12 on each end of such arm in which the track wires 13 are mounted. There are two of these wires 13 and they are parallel.

for clamping a receptacle between the sides each side of the track wires substantially as 10 of said carrier, parallel track wires upon set forth. which said carrier moves, a row of posts upon In witness whereof, I have hereunto al the upper end of which said track wires are fixed my signature in the presence of the wit- 5 mounted, a cable for moving said carrier, nesses herein named.

means mounted higher than the track Wires ISAAC M. HEN KICKS. for carrying said cable, means at one end of Witnesses: the apparatus for actuating the cable, and N. ALLEMONG,

means extending down from the carrier on H. B. MoCoRD. 

